Baby Sharks, Stingrays, and Sunburn

So I have been here at the beach since Saturday, and I have gotten myself some nasty sunburn. This is because I am stubborn and refused to apply sunblock (hate those sticky feeling on my skin). Yes, I do look like a welldone roast ping now, haha.

This morning my wife and I took a walk at the beach before sunrise and saw some people were fishing already in the shallow water. We walked over to them and was surprised to see that they had caught baby sharks and stingrays!! Wow! However, they were not allowed to keep them due to state laws so they would eventually throw them back at sea.

We have scaled back boogieboarding a bit and have been relaxing and throwing football at the beach. We went to boating yesterday and caught stone crabs, shrimps, and fish. However, we were not allowed to keep them so it was just for the fun of it. Schools in South Carolina started this week so there were very few people at the beach; we pretty much have the beach all by ourselves!

Last night we went to the marina bay to watch firework. Nothing spectacular; but the kids loved it.

Last but not least, I have not shaved since last Friday morning, so I had grown some short beard all over my face. My wife said she had never seen me looking like this so she said it's kind of funny looking!?!? Funny looking? I thought I look like the guys on the CBS's Survivors show, wakakaka...

Oh well, back to the hot tub...

Beach, Sweat, and Jellyfish...

So I have been here since Saturday afternoon and temperature has been steaming into the mid 90's and lots of sweat. We spent most of the day at the beach, and in between soaked our tired bodies in our beach house's private swimming pool and hot tub. August is a high season for jellyfish in the South Carolina's beaches. In the past two days since we were here a lot of people had gotten stung by jellyfish and they were in severe pain. The best treatment was to apply cool vinegar to wash the affected area. If you use tap water it would discharge the poisonous venom that was left on the surface of the body or skin. If you are at the beach, use sand to scrap off any cells leftover from the sting.

I have been boogie-boarding a lot these past two days and it was fun. If you don't know what boogie-boarding means, you can check here.

Back to the beach...

3 more days to go - count down to Hilton Head Island!

My family's summer vacation will begin in 3 days!!!

Hilton Head Island is located in the southernmost tip of South Carolina, about 600 miles from where I live in Washington, D.C. The distance is about the same from my house to Toronto, Canada, therefore I am expecting a 10-hour drive to get there.

Some information about Hilton Head can be found here.

We will stay there for a week, together with two other families whom we have known since our college days. We have rented a single vacation house next to the beach in Hilton Head that has six bedroom suites, two hot tubs, and a private swimming pool in the back yard. I plan to take a lot of videos and pictures this time to include sunrise and sunset shots. We plan to leave Friday around 4 or 5 PM and stay overnight in North Carolina before continuing to Hilton Head Saturday's morning.

蔡楓華當年的經典說話...

When I look back at this, I wonder if Choi's entertainment career would take a different (better) turn had he not said this famous "one-liner" in JSG...

當年的經典說話... (Watch MV Here)

As Wittybb said in her blog " 遺憾"; it does make a lot of sense.

每日一曲 :: 逝去的諾言, 玻璃窗的愛 - 陳慧嫻

Oh boy, she looked so young and cute back in 1985...it's like the "girl next door" :-)

Her first album was "少女雜誌", released together with two other singers (陳樂敏、黎芷珊) in 1984. 逝去的諾言 made 陳慧嫻 an instant star.



逝去的諾言 (Watch MV Here)

曲︰安格斯
詞︰安格斯
編︰安格斯

相識是偶然　無奈愛心頃刻變
你在我　又或是我在你
內心曾許下諾言

誰說有不散筵席　誰說生死不變
這份愛　讓這份愛
被流水一一衝染

＊此刻共對亦無言　流露我心中淒怨
看著你　我愁懷滿臉
淚水有如灑在面前

＃我的心怎忍說離別　凝望你輕忽走遠
已別去　是已別去
讓時光洗去悲怨

重唱　＊,＃


玻璃窗的愛 (Watch MV Here)

曲︰安格斯
詞︰安格斯
編︰安格斯

今天能共你一起　愛你柔情沒法避
當天無限熱愛牽起　說我知愛戀滋味

＊柔情在今天為他奉獻
似玻璃窗　已看清睇見
柔情在心中萬千又似
太空的星星　在旋轉〔無盡無遠〕

心已穿全是你的箭　吻我留下做紀念
這世間　誰令我倆不變
送給他與我這心頭

重唱　＊,＊,＊,＊

每日一曲 :: Don't You Forget About me - Simple Minds

One of 1980's best English songs!

For some reasons, the lead singer's dance and movement reminded me of 羅大佑...



Don't You (Forget About me) (Watch MV Here)

Lyrics by Keith Forsey

Hey, hey, hey ,hey
Ohhh...

Won't you come see about me?
I'll be alone, dancing you know it baby

Tell me your troubles and doubts
Giving me everything inside and out and
Love's strange so real in the dark
Think of the tender things that we were working on

Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, baby

Don't You Forget About Me
Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me

Will you stand above me?
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down

Will you recognise me?
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down, down

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Ohhhh.....

Don't you try to pretend
It's my feeling we'll win in the end
I won't harm you or touch your defenses
Vanity and security

Don't you forget about me
I'll be alone, dancing you know it baby
Going to take you apart
I'll put us back together at heart, baby

Don't You Forget About Me
Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me

As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
When you walk away

Or will you walk away?
Will you walk on by?
Come on - call my name
Will you all my name?

I say :
La la la...

每日一曲 :: Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics

What are your sweet dreams?



Sweet Dreams (Watch MV Here)


Lyrics by Eurythmics

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

I wanna use you and abuse you
I wanna know what's inside you
(Whispering) Hold your head up, movin' on
Keep your head up, movin' on
Hold your head up, movin' on
Keep your head up, movin' on
Hold your head up, movin' on
Keep your head up, movin' on
Movin' on!

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

I'm gonna use you and abuse you
I'm gonna know what's inside
Gonna use you and abuse you
I'm gonna know what's inside you

What a day I want to forget!

Today wasn't a good Friday to me.

Got conference calls started from 1PM and lasted until almost 5PM (so I missed badminton). During the call I found out that I needed to prepare something over weekend so the information can be released on Monday to the customers (so I don't have a weekend!).

On my way home my wife called and she told me her dad's car alarm went off and couldn't be stopped. I thought it would be a simple fix so I told her don't worry I could fix it in 30 minutes.

Well, it turned out that my in-laws left his headlight on and eventually drained the battery out. The car alarm, for some reason, started to make siren noise when the battery level reached some low level mark. So, I jump-started the car and everything was then a-okay. I even told my in-laws that I would drive his car out for a few miles to charge up the battery and then come home. Oh well, that turned out to be a mistake.

The car drove fine for about two miles and I decided to get myself a nice cold Mocha coffee from Burger King (don't ask me why I went there) before heading home. Because I didn't want to stop the engine so I decided to hit the Drive Thru lane instead to place my order. After I placed my order I queued up behind the cars and waiting for my turn to pay the bill. I inched forward slowly and then all of the sudden the engine just died. That's right, it just died. I tried to re-start the engine but the alarm went off!! I said - WTF!!! Remember, I was in the Drive Thru Lane at Burger King so drivers behind me started to yell "What's going on?!" I told them "Sorry, my car just died, can't move. I need someone to push my car out of the Drive Thru Lane". They then said "Sorry, can't help you here". Man, can't you guys lend a helping hand! I meant, they were young to middle-age males, not ladies! One guy even said "there is a Tire Plus across the street from the King". I told them - "I know, but they are closed!" Then I thought - "man, if I were a lady I bet you all would start rolling up your sleeves and start pushing my in-laws car!" Luckily the workers inside Burger King came out and helped push my in-laws car to the parking lot to clear up the jam. I gave two guys $10 each and thanked them for their help. I also paid them the money to cover the Mocha coffee.

Okay, now what. The car couldn't start and the alarm went off whenever I tried to start the engine. I called my wife and told her the bad news and needed her to come to BK with my tools box so I can disconnect the battery cable and stopped the alarm. She then said "You idiot!!!" She came about 20 minutes later and I finally removed the cable and stopped the alarms. I then took out the battery and headed to K-Mart to buy the new battery. I was lucky because K-Mart closed at 10PM and I got there around 9:30 PM. I then returned to the parking lot and replaced the dead battery and everything was then "A_OKAY". By the time I got home it was almost 11PM and all sweat!!!

Finally I then realized that I had forgotten to pick up my ice-cold Mocha from Burger King!!!

!@#$%^&*()&*

每日一曲 :: Karma Chameleon - Culture Club

Karma Chameleon (Watch MV Here)

Lyrics by Culture Club

Desert loving in your eyes all the way.
If I listen to your lies would you say
I'm a man without conviction,
I'm a man who doesn't know
how to sell a contradiction.
You come and go, you come and go.

Chorus
Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon,
you come and go, you come and go.
Loving would be easy if your colours were like my dream,
red gold and green, red gold and green.
Chorus

Don't hear your wicked words every day
and you used to be so sweet, I heard you say
that my love was an addiction.
When we cling our love is strong.
When you go you're gone forever.
You string along, you string along.

CHORUS

Every day is like survival,
you're my lover, not my rival.
Every day is like survival,
you're my lover, not my rival.

I'm a man without conviction,
I'm a man who doesn't know
how to sell a contradiction.
You come and go, you come and go.

CHORUS

CHORUS

CHORUS